For a Democrat, Sanders is as 'revolutionary' as you can get

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is not revolutionary given his support for US wars of aggression, primarily in the Middle East, an American political analyst and activist says.

Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Wednesday that the party that truly reflects a greater degree of revolution is the Green Party, not the Republican or Democratic Parties.

Speaking at a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, Sanders pledged to make fundamental changes to America’s political, criminal justice, health care and education system, if he becomes president.

Touting his “political revolution,” the independent senator from Vermont said he would work to reform campaign finance laws and the criminal justice system, expand social welfare, create universal health care and make public college tuition-free.

“For the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders is the real deal when it comes to a ‘revolution’, even though it falls short of what a revolution really is,” said Hoenig. “His two major arguments is one, that money needs to be taken out of the electoral and legislative process.”

“For the longest time, and far earlier than Citizens United, corporations have controlled the two main political parties, the Democratic and Republican National Committees. They write the platform, they decide which candidates will take the lead and then coronate them at their summer conventions. They write the legislation that these candidates run on as well,” he stated.

“This time around it’s not going by their playbook as both Sanders and Trump have defied the wishes of the corporations. They have gone directly to the people, which by DNC and RNC standards, is revolutionary,” the analyst said.

“The other argument Sanders makes is income inequality; each campaign stop he talks of the billionaire class making all of the money and so little comes back to the middle and working classes. In fact, it is they who are subsidizing the corporations with their corporate welfare,” he said.

“However, Sanders is not revolutionary. He’s running as a Democrat. He wants taxes to be fairer. He wants our military to be used better, and if better, have proxies carry out our wars of aggression, primarily in the Middle East,” he continued.

“Incidentally, Sanders may have the moniker of Independent, but in Vermont he did much to prevent third parties from evolving,” the activist noted.

Green Party: the real revolution

“To be fair, the only party at the moment that truly reflects a greater degree of revolution is the Green Party, whose likely candidate is Jill Stein. Her ‘Power to the People Plan’ creates deep system change, moving from the greed and exploitation of corporate capitalism to a human-centered economy that puts people, planet and peace over profit,” Hoenig said.

“Her platform goes far beyond that of Sanders or any other Democrat: not just free college education but debt forgiveness, something that would leave the banks empty handed and not something Sanders advocates,” he added.

“When companies like Nestle’s empty’s aquifers for large metropolitan to sell as bottled water, we hear nothing from the Sanders campaign. The Green Party sees water, housing and utilities as a human right,” the social activist said.

“Stein accurately sees American foreign policy as that of imposing an empire on the world and has vowed to close over 700 military bases overseas, as well as form a foreign policy based on human rights and international law, which directly affects Israel and its occupation and subjugation of the Palestinian people,” he pointed out.

“For a Democrat, Sanders is ‘revolutionary’ and is a breath of fresh air. He could go a whole lot farther, but is constrained by the Democratic rules as well as his inability to go that extra mile,” the analyst concluded. 

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